Space rocks may have bounced off baby Earth, but slammed into Venus
Squabbling sibling planets may have hurled space rocks when they were young. Simulations suggest that space rocks struck both the newborn Earth and Venus,...
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Work on complex systems, including Earth’s climate, wins the physics Nobel Prize
Earth’s climate is a vastly complex system on a grand scale. On a microscopic level, so is the complicated physics of atoms and molecules...
Radiometric dating puts pieces of the past in context. Here’s how
When a researcher picks up an object — whether it’s a scrap of leather from a dig site, a fossil from a museum drawer...
A custom brain implant lifted a woman’s severe depression
A personalized brain implant eased the crushing symptoms of a woman’s severe depression, allowing her to once again see the beauty of the world....
Scientists are one step closer to error-correcting quantum computers
Mistakes happen — especially in quantum computers. The fragile quantum bits, or qubits, that make up the machines are notoriously error-prone, but now scientists...
Discovering how we sense temperature and touch wins the 2021 medicine Nobel Prize
Some touching research took the 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. David Julius of the University of California, San Francisco and Ardem Patapoutian...
A new antiviral pill cuts COVID-19 hospitalization and death rates
An at-home pill against coronavirus halves the chance that people newly diagnosed with COVID-19 will land in the hospital or die, early results released...
Ink analysis reveals Marie Antoinette’s letters’ hidden words and who censored them
In a world torn apart by the French Revolution, doomed Queen Marie Antoinette exchanged secret letters with a rumored lover. Someone later censored them...
2020 babies may suffer up to seven times as many extreme heat waves as 1960s kids
The kids are not all right. Children born in 2020 could live through seven times as many extreme heat waves as people born in...
50 years ago, X-rays revealed what ancient Egyptians kept under wraps
Probing pharaohs with X-rays — Science News, October 9, 1971 The 29 mummies of pharaohs and queens were examined without disturbing their present positions.…...
One day behind bars: Students and incarcerated women break prison stigma in Thailand 
Sudan: Driver killed in aerial attack on aid trucks in South Kordofan 
UN upholds housing as a human right on World Habitat Day 
Sweden’s Far Right Falters